Delay fixing date for Vera Cruz evacuation
Washington reports that fixing of a departure date for the American expedition to Vera Cruz, and the plan to evacuate refugees, is delayed while the state department settles customs fund and refugee care issues. About 1300 refugees, including 300 clergy, await evacuation. transportation costs may be covered by international church groups. Officials expect departure in about two weeks, allowing the final steamer to remove all.
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Steglitz
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Berkeley
Holland
Warsaw
Poland
Ukrain
Russia
Berlin Letter Describes Conditions in War Time
A Bergley California correspondent shares a Berlin letter from Mrs. W R Pinger wife of Professor Pinger of the University dated August 19 1914. She reports Americans receive consideration from Germans and notes mail and cable service are largely cut off with only a special train of Americans moving toward Holland allowing some letter transmission. She and her husband plan to stay in Berlin indefinitely during the advancing war.
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Cal
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Sieglits
Ahernstrasse
Germany
Holland
LIMIT OF HUMAN ENDURANCE AT AISNE REPORTS
Readings from a North Dakota prairie column note the Getchell school opening with twenty pupils, local visitors, and community updates. A separate dispatch from Paris on Sept. 3 reports German forces at the Aisne line wearing and retreating, with battles near Charleroi and Rheims, and German casualties rising to 36,786 as the war beyond Mons and Albert emphasizes German rigidity and French resolve.
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Charlie Nelson
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Samipbell
Geo. M. Young
Wis
Berlin
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